The Philippine National Police (PNP) basketball team, through the auspices of the FESSAP affiliated Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP), is taking part in the 9th Zheng Chenggong Cup in Nan’an City, Fujian Province in the People’s Republic of China. More than basketball, the PNP Defenders saw action in the invitational tournament to foster friendship and camaraderie among players from other Asian countries. Shown in the picture are PNP Senior Superintendent Gilberto Cruz, PNP Head Coach Eric Samson, Head of Delegation Alvin Tai Lian and Deputy Head Tai Xin Ming, FESSAP president David U. Ong and Megaworld Corporation & FESSAP Honorary Vice-Chair’s Danilo Madlansacay. October 28, 2016
Zheng Chenggong Cup: Mission accomplished. The Philippine National Police basketball team recently took part in the 9th Zheng Chenggong Cup international men’s basketball competitions in the bustling and booming city of Nan’an, Fujian province in the People’s Republic of China. More than the results on the floor, the PNP Defenders played the role of the ambassadors of goodwill to the hilt, earning raves from their co-players from seven other teams from Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the host country. “The players adhered to fair play and sportsmanship throughout the five-day tournament and this is a pleasant development in international basketball,” said Thailand’s Hi-Tech team manager Piyapong Piroon. “Win or lose, they never resorted to foul play. Along the way, the PNP squad also fostered friendship and camaraderie among its peers and even to the local police force. Many more were awed by the popularity of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, who had just come from a state visit to Beijing together with a business delegation. The local organizers were much thankful of Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Secretary General Graham C. Lim, who was instrumental in bringing in club teams from Korea (Enerskin), Malaysia (all-star selection), Thailand Basketball League (TBL) champs Hi-Tech and the PNP Defenders. Lim was boosted by the presence of Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) president David Ong; Asia-Pacific University Sports Union (APUSU) president and FESSAP Board chair Alvin Tai Lian; businessman-sportsman Tai Xin Ming; Megaworld Corporation & FESSAP Honorary Vice Chair’s Danilo Madlansacay; and International Basketball Federation (FIBA –Asia) Secretary General Emeritus and Asian University Basketball Federation (AUBF) Honorary President Dato’ Yeoh Choo Hock of Malaysia. The PNP team leader was led by Police Senior Superintendent Gilberto Cruz with Federico “Eric” Samson as PNP Head Coach and assisted by Juven Formacil. Edmundo Ang, Team Coordinator; Maria Cecilia Sarmiento, Secretary; and players are Harold Decena, Abul Khair Bayabao, Japheth Cabahug, Ronaldo Abaya, Crislyn Elopre, Ricardo Cabrera Jr., Harold Sta. Cruz, Rodel Ongutan, Alejandro Yanguiling Jr., Antonio Tolentino Jr., and Paul Ogayon. Other teams that saw action in the 9th edition of the Zheng Chenggong Cup were Taiwan’s Fubon Braves, which featured Brooklyn Nets playmaker Jeremy Lin’s younger brother Joseph Shu-Wei Lin and American import Liam Paul McMorrow, and Kin Men Kaoliang, which was bannered by former pro-import Eugene Phelps; Singapore’s Tong Whye Physical Association, which had four Filipinos on its roster led by the Philippines’ Development League veteran and University of the East product Paul Christian Zamar, John Michael Noble Dagatan, Michael Gierald Parala Gomez and Ramsie Cinco Da Elvir; and the host Nan’an selection. In the end, the one-game finals featured a pair of unbeaten teams from Taiwan. The Fubon Braves broke away from a close game with a 14-0 blast bridging the third and fourth quarters to erase a 55-50 deficit and moved ahead for good, 64-55, early in the fourth frame. The tree-like McMorrow paced the 5-0 Braves with 26 points. He was backed up by Wen Cheng Tsai’s 19 markers. Lin contributed eight points. Phelps, who suited up for Phoenix Petroleum in the recently-concluded PBA Governors’ Cup, netted 30 points in a losing cause. In the battle for third place, Nan’an, which topped the 8th Zheng Chenggong Cup, whipped Korea’s Enerskin, 107-81. Zamar, a son of former national team coach Boysie Zamar who last played for Cafe France in the PBA D-League, produced the tournament’s single-game individual high with 40 points in seventh-place Singapore’s 93-91 double-overtime loss to Korea’s Enerskin.
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In its front-page newspaper masthead, The Philippine Star proudly proclaims the “Truth shall prevail” slogan. By: Graham C. Lim Consequently, Star is expected to adhere to fair reportage where news reports and opinions of columnists may be rebutted or denied in print in the name of fairness. While “free space” is upon the discretion of the editors, the right to reply to a false accusation or inaccuracy in a newspaper must also be allowed to find print. One-sided or bias reportage has no space in a legitimate newspaper unless freedom of information is restricted only to the influential or powers-that-be. For the second time in the Philippines Star, the Honorable Jarius Bondoc came out to malign me in his column for May 25, 2016 based on his alleged conversations with the honorable Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr., the long-serving president of the Philippine Olympic Committee. The first time Bondoc came out to attack me in his column, I sent a letter to the Philippine Star editors to answer the unfounded accusations of Cojuangco and Bondoc against my person. Not surprisingly, my letter failed to find print when fairness dictates the Star should do so. Now comes again the rehashed accusations and imaginary charges against me in the May 25, 2016 column of the Honorable Bondoc. All of the accusations hurled against me are the figment of imagination of Cojuangco and shamelessly parroted by his spin doctor, Bondoc. Descriptions of how some people allegedly were illegally sent out to different basketball tournaments – such as those supposedly happening way back before 2012 – when, in fact, the Basketball Association of the Philippines had been out of the national basketball leadership (and replaced by the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas since the time) had already been in control of the national basketball leadership as early as 2008, is purely the work of a fiction writer or somebody suffering from symptoms of senility. And after concocting those so-called stories, I am being accused of being a human smuggler in order to justify the aforementioned tales, I, having been the BAP secretary general, and Senator Antonio Trillanes, concurrently the BAP president whom Cojuangco and Bondoc find unadulterated joy in attacking for a political matter not related to my case, have been maligned with impunity. Worse, I am saddened when I can’t fight back on a leveled field and reply to the accusations in the same forum (newspaper) that published them. “Truth shall prevail” is the Philippine Star’s proud slogan. Soon, the world will also find out the truth and, as they say, “the truth shall set us free.” Change is coming. And the truth shall be its biggest victor. Date: Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:40 PM Subject: "Truth shall prevail" slogan! 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<pilipinomirror12@gmail.com>, eunicecelario@yahoo.com, susan c <cambrisusan@ymail.com>, Rommel.manlosa@gmail.com, mawitan@gmail.com February 18, 2015 To the Editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer: Who really is the terrorist threat of Philippine basketball? Mr. Recah Trinidad has written a series of columns that are full of venom against Senator Antonio Trillanes and the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP). It went on to describe the BAP as the terrorist threat in Philippine basketball. Trinidad conveniently quoted a guy that claims to be a sports authority and alleges to teach values to his students. How could a certain Aparicio Mequi attempt to be a messiah of Philippine basketball when he could not even get the facts right? Is this the same Mequi who was dismissed as Philippine Sports Commission chair during the time of President Ramos due to corruption? And here comes somebody who puts this guy’s statements into print without having checked first the veracity of such declarations. If Mequi is really worth his salt, he would have known that the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas did not honor – and instead violated – the Bangkok Agreement signed in February 2007 that would have merged the BAP and the SBP under the name “BAP-SBP.” The list of voting members agreed upon in the Bangkok Agreement – which had 67 for BAP and 21 for the SBP – that will take part in an election following a one-year transition period was not honored by the SBP. Instead, the SBP, the minority group, chose to call for a rump election, disowned all BAP voting members and put in only its own so it could monopolize the list that will pick the next set of officers to lead the “BAP-SBP.” To complete the mockery of the Bangkok Agreement, the FIBA, through the unilateral decision of its secretary general Patrick Baumann, who himself was a signatory to the Bangkok Agreement, sided with the SBP for personal interests and just brushed aside the issues at hand). Subsequently, the SBP changed the organization to simply “SBP” and the FIBA Secretariat, through Baumann, kept its silence and indirectly agreed to the illegal action by the SBP. Prior to that, a FIBA Special Meeting was supposedly to be held in Switzerland to settle the dispute. The SBP initially said it won’t attend, even calling it a “sham,” but later decided to go even days before the meeting would take place. Days of wining and dining by the SBP and FIBA officials proved to be a major factor. The BAP, on the other hand, was not able to attend the meeting because its representative was unable to get a visa on time. That’s because some powerful personalities had warned the Swiss embassy to delay –if not deny – the issuance of a visa to the BAP representative. The BAP, as the aggrieved party, elevated the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Even there, the goose may have been cooked way in advance. Does that mean that some SBP and FIBA personalities had connections with CAS executives? The death of the BAP is greatly exaggerated. It will never cease to die as an entity. What the BAP lost was the FIBA recognition. Terrorism occurs when some people shamelessly discredit a legal entity in an attempt to illegally grab power for itself. The SBP is the country’s national basketball association that is recognized by the FIBA following a conspiratorial action taken by the SBP, POC and FIBA against the BAP. Now I ask: Who really is the terrorist threat of Philippine basketball? The paid hacks should have their brains examined so as to be able to distinguish fact from fiction. It’s been a long time that sports has been dominated by political patronage. Money and power are all that matter to the national sports leadership. Their belief that only they have the authority to lead the national sports is the height of arrogance. Now Recah, I ask you how much are the series of column worth in attacking the BAP? Fair play demands that both sides of the story are heard. Even seasoned veteran journalists like Recah knows this pretty well. In the interest of fair reporting, I seek the publication of this correspondence! Sincerely, BAP Secretariat CEBU TO HOST ASIAN UNIVERSITY CAGEFEST
By: Graham C. Lim, September 4, 2014 For the second time in six years, Cebu city will host the 10th Asian University Basketball Championship (AUBC) from October 22 to 26. Six collegiate teams, including a pair of foreign entries from the People’s Republic of China and South Korea, are taking part in the prestigious regional competitions to be held at the tradition-steeped Cebu Coliseum. The local participants will be spearheaded by the top schools from the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc. (CESAFI) – the University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers, Southwestern University (SWU) Cobras, University of San Jose-Recoletos Jaguars and San Carlos University. UV, bannered by veterans John Michael Abad, Chris Perolino and Alfred Codilla, is the reigning CESAFI titlist, having beaten SWU, 3-2, in the 2013 finals to become the first team in league history to capture the crown after dropping the first two games of the best-of-five championship series. Huaqiao University of the People’s Republic of China and Muongji University of South Korea, both of which are former AUBC champions, will be around to test the mettle of the best collegiate squads from Sugbu, the Queen City of the South. Muongji University of Korea topped the 4th AUBC tournament hosted by Dumaguete City in 2005. Huaqiao University, on the other hand, whipped local bet University of the Visayas (powered by a young Greg Slaughter) during the 6th AUBC finals held in Cebu City in 2008. An international school, Huaqiao is located in Xiamen, China and has been supportive of AUBF activities since 2005. In 2011, Guangdong University of PROC bested a Taiwanese squad to annex the crown at the Bintulu Stadium in Sarawak, Malaysia. The following year, the University of the East Red Warriors, led by Roi Sumang, Chris Javier and Cameroonian import Charles Mammie, ascended to the AUBC throne in hostilities held at the Trinity University of Asia in Quezon City and participated in by foreign schools Hangtuah University of Indonesia and Universiti Technologi MARI of Malaysia. The opening ceremony of the 2014 AUBC showcase is set for October 22 at the Cebu Coliseum owned by Attorney Go of the University of Cebu. The five-day international tourney is being organized by Lorenzo (Chao) Sy, the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Regional Director, in coordination with the Asian University Basketball Federation (AUBF) and the Cebu City Sports Commission under the City Government of Mayor Michael Rama. Honorable Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama will be the guest speaker during the AUBC opening ceremony. Prominent sports personalities invited to grace the opening are Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) president David Ong, BAP president Senator Antonio Trillanes, AUBF President Shin Dong Pa, AUBF deputy secretary general Park Hyun Mo, and CESAFI Commissioner Felix Tiukinhoy. All-time Korean cage great Shin Dong Pa and Park Hyun Mo will accompany the Muongji University team to Cebu City. Muongji, whose head coach is Kim Nam Ki, seeks to duplicate its championship finish nine years ago. Lorenzo “Chao” Sy is the chairman of the AUBC Organizing Committee in coordination with the Asian University Basketball Federation (AUBF) and the BAP, which is recognized by the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP). (gcl) Gerardo "Gerry" C. Sergio is designated as the new Regional Director of the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) Region IV of Southern Tagalog. Director Gerry tasked is to promote and supervise the conduct and development and to organize regional competitions in a permanent and regular manner, carefully following all administrative and technical regulations of the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP). The Region IV consisting of the Provinces of Aurora, Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Marinduque, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Palawan, Quezon, Rizal, Romblon and the Cities of Batangas, Cavite, Lipa, Lucena, Puerto Princesa, San Pablo, Tagaytay and Trese Martires. Main tasked is to encouraged goodwill and harmonious relationship among the officials and members of the BAP through cooperation of responsibility, camaraderie and make appropriate reports to the Executive Board and the National Secretariat. Launch education seminar, basketball clinic and accredit membership for the BAP in coordination with its provincial directors, commissioners in cities and municipalities in working hand to hand with the BAP National Commissioner for proper conduct of accreditation and membership. Director Sergio is the Chairman of the Athletes Commission of the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) which recognizes the BAP as the country's sole representative to the University competitions in Asia and World University Championship (WUC). June 07, 2014 Saturday, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Congratulations to the New Set of Officers: BAP Hong Kong, New South Chapter BAP- Hong Kong New South Chapter Officers: 1. Ruben A. Biascan Chapter Commissioner 2. Jover M. Lopez Chapter Deputy Commissioner 3. Santos G. Sanguir Business Manager, Referee Affairs 4. Jerry T. Brillantes Assignment, Referee Affairs 5. Romeo F. Casife Treasurer 6. Joe Langwas Adviser 7. Michelle L. Regalado Media/Table Official 8. Edgar Batayola League Commissioner 9. Jessie C. Quevedo Assistant Treasurer Manila, Philippines (April 1, 2014) - - - The Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) will organize the 66th National Students Basketball Championship (NSBC) in November 2014 as a qualifying tournament to the 28th Summer Universiade in Gwangju City, Korea in July 2015.
Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV, president of BAP, will hope that the qualifying city or province will soon be announced. This international competition of the 28th Summer Universiade in Gwangju City from July 3 to 14, 2015 is a synchronized participation by university athletes from different sports to be hosted by one country (like the Olympic Games). Officially, the BAP is affiliated with the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) who is the sole local university sports organization that is recognized by the Federation Internationale Du Sports Universitaire (FISU) or International University Sports Federation (English version), which is the organizer of the Olympics-style Summer and Winter Universiades and the World University Games. The Host city might be in Mindanao region come November 2014, said Christian D. Tan, BAP Executive Vice President, arrangement and negotiation is on going in Mindanao Region, hopefully the decision will be made within this month of April, after the Holy Week ends. The participation of different colleges and universities nationwide will be composed of the following. These are the slots as per regional allocations with a total of 16 teams to be invited later. Luzon/NCR Region - 4 Teams Visayas Region - 4 Teams Mindanao Region - 8 Teams |
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